Re: the role of public-rdf-shapes@w3.org

Another problem that is surfacing because personal responses are being made in
the comments list is that editors are making non-editorial changes to the
working groups documents in response to my comments.  However, it does not
appear that these substantive changes to SHACL are being approved by the
working group as a whole.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Nuance Communications


On 09/28/2016 06:12 AM, Arnaud Le Hors wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> As you know, I too am grateful for your feedback. I thank you for taking the
> time to review the spec and share your findings.
> 
> The WG has adopted a process to deal with public comments in which WG members
> are welcomed to answer public comments directly to the extent possible. All WG
> members are on this list and on the look out for controversial statements.
> When necessary issues will be discussed within the WG and if necessary
> recorded as formal issues in tracker. I can assure you that the WG is paying
> attention as the agenda of this week's call shows.
> 
> Technically speaking, the process doesn't require us to formally dispose of
> the comments we receive at this stage on the Recommendation track but it's to
> everybody's benefit to try and address them earlier rather than later.
> 
> To that end I think we all gain from having WG members engage with you (and
> other people who are commenting on this list) in an effort to understand what
> the problems you're raising are and testing whether a particular answer might
> address them.
> 
> If you feel that the answers you are getting fail to adequately address your
> issues, please, let us know which ones they are.
> 
> Thank you.
> --
> Arnaud  Le Hors - Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Web Technologies - IBM Cloud
> 
> 
> "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote on 09/28/2016
> 07:40:45 AM:
> 
>> From: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
>> To: Simon Steyskal <simon.steyskal@wu.ac.at>
>> Cc: public-rdf-shapes@w3.org
>> Date: 09/28/2016 07:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: the role of public-rdf-shapes@w3.org
>>
>> On 09/27/2016 10:15 PM, Simon Steyskal wrote:
>> > Hi Peter!
>> >
>> > First, I think I speak for the majority of the WG when I say that I truly
>> > appreciate your effort in thoroughly reviewing the SHACL spec. Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Thanks.  It is reassuring to have a message that goes counter to the recent
>> actions of the working group and communication within it.
>>
>> >> I have been playing along by responding to personal responses to
>> my comments
>> >> on "Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)" that I have sent to
>> >> public-rdf-shapes@w3.org.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, I'm not really sure what you mean with "I have been playing
>> > along by responding to personal responses to my comments". Could
>> you elaborate
>> > on that?
>>
>> There have been a number of responses to my messages from individual members
>> of the working group.  I have tried to respond to these as best I can, even
>> though this mailing list should be for communications between the working
>> group and commenters on the documents produced by the working group. Back and
>> forth involving members of the working group acting personally instead of for
>> the working group as a whole generally ends up making it harder to determine
>> whether the working group is meeting its requirement to adequately address
>> comments on its documents.
>>
>> >> These messages are all intended to be official comments on the document. I
>> >> await a response from the W3C Data Shapes Working Group for each
>> and every one
>> >> of them.
>> >
>> > Just for clarification, do you mean "response from the WG" as in [1]?
>>
>> Well, such a message is part of what the working needs to do to adequately
>> address comments.  However, the referenced message is not a complete response
>> as it does not contain information on the result of the issues opened as a
>> result of the message.
>>
>> > br,
>> > simon
>> >
>> > [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-shapes/2016May/0008.html
>> >
>> > ---
>> > DDipl.-Ing. Simon Steyskal
>> > Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna
>> >
>> > www: http://www.steyskal.info/ twitter: @simonsteys
>>
>> peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Am 2016-09-28 00:51, schrieb Peter F. Patel-Schneider:
>> >> I have been playing along by responding to personal responses to
>> my comments
>> >> on "Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL)" that I have sent to
>> >> public-rdf-shapes@w3.org.
>> >>
>> >> These messages are all intended to be official comments on the document. I
>> >> await a response from the W3C Data Shapes Working Group for each
>> and every one
>> >> of them.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> >> Nuance Communications
>>
>

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